Hire a programmer

By: Vlatko Šurlan

Buying expensive software packages includes the price of adaptation for a concrete problem in your business situation. Other than buying a proprietary solution you have the option to go open source. Even though open source carries many advantages, one of it's negative sides is that these packages are rather general and usually need additional adaptation for a specific issue. There is also a solution in the middle - hiring a programmer.

This service is known as a rent-a-programmer. For Croatian programmer this service is usually queried as rent-a-programmer in Croatia. It is often used as a source of programming power for localization and translation of software package from foreign linguistic territories.

This for of cooperation enables the customer to rent a certain number of programmers from the offering company for a specific time frame. The rented programmers are then in full command of the customer.

Working place

As is evident by its nature, web development is a very flexible in terms of location of work. In our modern era, a programmer can easily take a laptop and go to the beach to finish his latest assignments. If internet is available that is.

In case of in office work it can be done both in the offices of the customer or offices of the lending company. Since the means of communication are so numerous today it almost does not matter where the programmer does his work.

Deadlines

Deadlines naturally depend completely on the customer and renting company. In case of work from home one of the benefits is cutting the lost time required to reach the offices.

Renting a programmer

Large expansion of online sales is one of the causes of proliferation of rent-a-programmer type of services. The most common type of applications being developed are corporate web sites and applications for online trade and entertainment.

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Copyright

In this model of software development the authorship rights are most commonly held by the client. Only very rarely can another agreement be made by both parties when there is mutual interest to do so.

Price of renting a programmer

The price is most commonly determined on a time table, either by hours, days or even months. There are different policies of renting a programmer in each company that operates this type of business but a common minimal time frame for renting a programmer is one month.

Renting a programmer for a few months is often done for developing very specialized and complex software applications.

Renting a programmer on a daily basis is rather rare but is sometimes used for correcting errors in existing applications.

Renting a programmer per hour is used very rarely but can sometimes be used for educating a new user with an unknown application.